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The Wait For It Podcast
Hosted by MrEricAlmighty and PhilTheFilipino, the guys discuss all things in Pop Culture from movies, gaming, anime and anything in between. New episodes every Wednesday, all you have to do is...WAIT FOR IT!
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What Did I Miss? (June 2025 Bonus Episode)
Longtime friend Erin, who works as Community Manager for 2K Games on Borderlands, joins us for a special reunion episode filled with nostalgia, cryptid sightings, and Hollywood career revelations.
• Harold and Kumar are getting a new sequel with original stars John Cho and Kal Penn expected to return
• Discussing whether early 2000s stoner comedies can successfully translate to today's entertainment landscape
• Erin shares bizarre cryptid sightings including an alien on a doorbell camera and a potential Bigfoot in New Hampshire
• Will Smith revealed he rejected Christopher Nolan's Inception in addition to The Matrix and Django Unchained
• Examining Hollywood's trend of producing sequels to films from 15+ years ago rather than complete reboots
• Reminiscing about our early content creation days
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Speaker 1:Mr Eric Almighty and Phil the Filipino.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they've got you covered, and all you gotta do is wait for it. This is the Wait For it Podcast. Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Wait For it Podcast. I am your co-host, phil Barrera, aka Phil the Filipino.
Speaker 1:And I am your other co-host, mr Eric Almighty, and for this monthly edition, our bonus episode. What Did I Miss? We brought in the most special of special guests. We went back like 15 plus years to make this happen. We're going back in time with a longtime friend and Phil. I'm excited to get into this one for that reason.
Speaker 2:Yeah, making their first appearance on the podcast since 2019. What was the name of that episode, eric? It was Cartoon Conspiracies With Researcher, with Researcher Aaron.
Speaker 1:Why did we give her that tag, was she?
Speaker 3:researching, because I was doing research.
Speaker 1:No, yeah because she was sending us research very early on, like a ton of stuff. We had a payroll. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:Like a true CEO. Yeah, no dental.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right, we did offer dental yeah.
Speaker 3:And my lower teeth are still jacked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, about that.
Speaker 1:Thanks, yeah, no.
Speaker 2:You were yeah, thanks. Yeah, let's see I actually have hold on MCU scores. I have stuff about the Titanic. Yeah, love Pass Endgame. Thomas the Train this one's called the Scoop. What's this one about?
Speaker 1:it's an unfortunate film, not a great ice cream pivot, pivot.
Speaker 2:I was just trying to see what notes were sent over. So anyway, aaron, it is so good to see you. You have been to, you've been up to so much. It's been really great getting to catch up with you and see where life has taken you. So if you want to introduce yourself and what you do and what you're working on, because it's pretty cool, I mean it's alright it's okay, it's classified.
Speaker 3:No, hey, hi everybody. I'm Aaron, because it's pretty cool, I mean it's all right, it's fine, it's okay, it's classified. No, hey, hi everybody. I'm Erin. I almost gave my stream tag like I was introducing myself in a stream. No, I mean, yeah, if you want, it's ErinMyLaundry on Twitch, follow me. But yeah, I most importantly am, importantly, am like one of phil and eric's most important, earliest, most loyal friends.
Speaker 1:Um the things I have seen, the memories, also classified, I won't be talking I was gonna say, you know, if you're under an.
Speaker 2:NDA.
Speaker 3:Yeah, join their Patreon and maybe we'll talk.
Speaker 1:You might get a clue. You know we talked a lot of Yanni, though, so I'm not sure there was anything about him.
Speaker 3:Chronicles of Eric reboot. No see, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Never mind.
Speaker 2:We can shout out to MySpace which, luckily those videos are not accessible.
Speaker 1:Oh Is Craps not on there?
Speaker 2:Craps not on there. Craps is on Facebook, unfortunately.
Speaker 1:I should probably delete those. I was going to say Chronicles of Eric I was actually still kind of proud of, but Craps might be outdated.
Speaker 2:I think Craps 1 and 2 are fine.
Speaker 1:We didn't like the third one, but problematically, I think they're not great. We have to probably explain craps.
Speaker 2:We just keep saying craps and no one knows what we're talking about yeah so. So there I used to be, and I still kind of am a big fan of the ghost hunters tv show. It's not around anymore, but their name for their group was taps, the transatlantic paranormal society. They were based out of new england and our thing thing was we made an alternate version called Craps, where we would find bad rappers and just beat the shit out of them. Wasn't?
Speaker 3:that Was Brock in that one Brock is in it.
Speaker 1:Guys, I found them so fast.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God yeah we might have fast. Yeah, they're on.
Speaker 2:Facebook yeah we might have to Hell. Yeah, I'll private them, so we can at least still watch them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's incredible. Oh my God, I'm so scared.
Speaker 2:The first rapper we did was Soulja Boy, yeah. The second one was Kevin Federline and then the third one was DJ Khaled, which is where we like lost it. Like for the first two I think we had something going but kept, but DJ Khaled who was also played by Brock with a pillow under his shirt. That was the cosplay. That was the cosplay.
Speaker 1:That one wasn't good, no, that one, that was that one. We realized maybe we shouldn't be doing, we shouldn't be doing, we shouldn't be doing this.
Speaker 2:I will say they are. We were ahead of our time in terms of content creation, but it just wasn't the right content creation, no for sure uh, the ones on facebook do not have audio though, so I don't know what happened. Oh, yeah, it may have just been like removed over time if there was something in there. Oh, you know why? Because I there's like copyrighted music in that.
Speaker 1:So they removed it.
Speaker 2:Remember there's a cutaway to soldier boys, so that's probably a hundred percent. So I wish I had had the wherewithal to back these up over the years, but it just never happened. Oh my gosh. So that's what craps is. There's some way for a podcast lore that you weren't ready for. He didn't know that you were going to get. So, um, but yeah, uh. Also, in terms of whatever projects you're working on, do you, did you want to share that? Is it classified?
Speaker 3:I don't know what you want to tell people, I mean, I'm wearing the hoodie no, that's true I work for 2k games as the community manager, so right now I'm working on uh, all things, borderlands, borderlands 4, risk of rain and any other projects that come my way which are classified.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, so lots of really cool stuff. I'm excited for Borderlands 4. I really liked 3, even though, like community-wise, I know people were pretty mixed on it, but it's the only one I've ever beaten because.
Speaker 2:I played through it with our buddy Josh, but I enjoyed 3, so I think people are a lot of. As far as content creators, the response from the most recent playtests have been really positive, so that's really good and it looks fun. I mean just trying to figure out what. I think trying to figure out what the Borderlands community wants shouldn't be too difficult. You can tell me if I'm wrong, but you see what worked in 1 and 2 and then implement that and just make it not like the movie.
Speaker 3:What do you mean?
Speaker 1:It sounds easy. It sounds so easy, but yeah it was really.
Speaker 3:The game is really fun. I've played it a lot and we had an event recently in LA where a bunch of creators came out and played it. And we had an event recently in LA where a bunch of creators came out and played it and we did a lot of community listening.
Speaker 3:We weren't invited, but it's fine so we had a lot of community listening, a lot of feedback back to the devs and, yeah, it's going to be awesome. You're going to feel really fucking bad when you see that one of the guns is named after you, so whatever.
Speaker 2:Oh, the Wait For it gun. Wait For it gun, the craps gun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it takes like 15 seconds to reload, oh man.
Speaker 2:Really cool stuff. I'm very excited to have you here on this episode, thanks. I tried to make it a whole reunion and bring Phyllyn in from Read it and Reap also my sister, but she was just busy, so we'll try again in the future. But for those of you that are new to the podcast and you've never listened to an episode ever, this is not typically how things go. We're pretty structured around here. We're pretty proud of that. But what did I miss is our monthly bonus episode where we bring in guests and we each share a pop culture story. What, what happened, eric?
Speaker 1:I accidentally clicked on it. The audio is there and it was the cut to soldier boy it just the audio is there. It says the video has no sound.
Speaker 3:We might, I might have to play this in the post show.
Speaker 1:The quality is so bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had like a really it was like filmed on a really shitty 2000s camera.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think I might still have the camera. You probably still have the camera.
Speaker 2:Probably.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3:I might still have it. Yeah, I apologize.
Speaker 1:I tried to keep it together. I heard the audio and then it went Soulja Boy up in the air, yeah.
Speaker 2:It was a time. Anyway, as I was saying, what Did I Miss is an episode where we bring in our friends, fellow creators, and we each share a pop culture story from the previous month because you may have missed something here in the month of June and we'll each share a story. We'll go over kind of a Discord roundup where we're posting pop culture news throughout the entire month, so we'll recap that and then we'll play a fun game. Eric will be trying to defend his crown against Aaron. This month he's won a couple times as far as Kahoot goes, so we'll see how it goes this time around. But other than that, Eric, is there anything else that we need to go over, other than bringing in the most important part of this episode? Three people Doesn't matter. We still need to bring in, of course, the wheel of destiny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so here's how this is going to work. You know what Eric feels about the wheel. It's the same way Elmo feels about Rocco. Oh, rocco Rocco, really, who bought Rocco? It's Rocco Rocco who bought Rocco.
Speaker 1:I thought you bought him, so yeah. So why are we feeding a rock? Why are we spinning the wheel? Well, we don't really know. That's just how it goes. There are three names on here and to determine who's going to go first, we are going to count down 3, 2, 1, and by we I mean I am going to count down 3, 2, 1. And then we are going to count down three, two, one, and by we I mean I am going to count down three, two, one. And then we are going to say in that cadence spin that wheel. Three, two, one, spin that wheel. We're going to try to do that at the same time. We're going to try to do it successfully. We'll see how it goes. I will say the pressure's on Aaron.
Speaker 2:Cause last episode we like we went four for four for the first time. Yeah, it was probably the best we have ever done. I want that goose egg.
Speaker 1:It'd be great if our synergy lasted over the years and we could just jump back into it. Do you have any questions about how this is going to go?
Speaker 3:So you're going to spin the wheel and then we're going to say three, two, one, spin that wheel.
Speaker 1:You did it. I'm a little concerned now. I'm a little concerned, we're gonna say three, two, one. Okay, just making sure. Okay, Because you'd be surprised why I have to do this instruction. You'd be shocked. So we're gonna go. We're gonna go If you guys are ready. Are you gonna be mad if I get it wrong Around the Well now? It'll only be three times, so around the third time maybe, okay.
Speaker 3:Excellent, it'll be fine.
Speaker 1:Chill, chill, alright. Three, two, one, spin that wheel. Okay, she got really excited and I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it, I understand.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:I don't know that.
Speaker 2:I've ever gone first. I don't know yeah that might be a first. Well, now I don't know what story to start.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't like it do you. You don't like it, it's not a fun place to be. I will say, this month I think I have a story that I don't think anyone's really gonna cover, so I feel pretty good about it and it can go two different ways.
Speaker 2:one of my stories was kind of like just an overall blanket story, but so I'll just do this one. Uh, in the interest of the early 2000s, let's talk about har, harold and Kumar. How about that? Let's do that story. That's crazy Because Harold and Kumar is getting a new sequel, as Cobra Kai creators inked a deal to write and direct Harold and Kumar, according to the Hollywood Reporter, are going to get some burgers and buzz one more time.
Speaker 2:John Hurwitz, hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, the creators behind the worldwide Netflix sensation Cobra Kai, have closed in on a deal to write and direct a new installment of Harold and Kumar, the buddy stoner comedy movie, of course, from the early 2000s. They will also, as I mentioned, direct the feature, which is being developed by Lionsgate. Lionsgate owned Mandate Pictures. It's a full circle moment for the gentlemen, as their Hollywood career got high thanks to writing the original movie, 2004's Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and then making the directorial debut with the 2008 Escape to Guantanamo Bay. John Cho and Cal Penn, who played the title characters, are expected to return, although the deals have not been made with the actors quite yet. Neil Patrick Harris, who is also a key component of the cast, and his involvement as of right now is unclear.
Speaker 2:So we have had conversations kind of in the past, eric, about man. It'd be like how could they release some of these comedies that from from like our, our child childhood, our teen years and and like make them not overly corny, still make them fun and not be punching down, you know, and I think that's going to be very interesting. I will say I do trust John Cho and Cal Penn. They've stayed at least on the right side of things throughout all of these years, unlike some of the other people from our for movies from our youth. So, Erin, I'll throw it to you first. What is your, your kind of knowledge about the Harold and Kumar series? Do you think this can work in 2020, whatever it is, when this comes out, and do you think there is a place, like, for this type of like kind of like raunchy, fun comedy in current day?
Speaker 3:I mean I'm going to sound so old, but like as a mom, like what? What? Like we're all parents like, is it? My gut reaction is the way that they're gonna try to make this relevant is it's gonna be Harold and Kumar's kids and it's gonna be like we're gonna do vape, like I don't know what's good I I have. No, I don't know. I think there's something special about mid-2000s stoner comedies where a lot of the shenanigans that you got into or that they would get into just don't really happen now. Like it's not really something that Are kids these days going to 7-Elevens and buying all the snacks?
Speaker 2:No, not at all, they just smoke at home. Yeah, they have it delivered and smoke at home.
Speaker 3:Do you think it's going to be? Actually, it's not Harold and Kumar, it's actually the adventure, the misadventures of the, the DoorDash delivery driver. That'd be kind of funny, yeah.
Speaker 1:Maybe they start the order from DoorDash. Don't get the DoorDash, then have to go to White.
Speaker 3:Castle, yeah, or they have to like find oh, that'd be great Like the DoorDash guy is like I'm here and they look outside and they're like I don't see you and it's like an alternate dimension.
Speaker 2:It's like an old address. It's like their old address at the apartment. Oh, it could be the old address.
Speaker 1:It could also be the door dasher drops off the White Castle but then also accidentally picks up one of their kids and kidnaps them and brings them back to the White Castle, and they got to go get them in exchange for the White Castle. I don't know man, I don't know man, I don't know. I think. I'm on drugs right now I'm going to spaz out.
Speaker 3:I'm stuck in this box.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I agree with you Like there is a remember how I'm going to take a sharp left here. Remember how Cal Penn left House a really good, high paying job to to join the Obama administration and then within the year his department shut down. I really want to find out, like, how he handled all that Cause I would like to hear his story. But yeah, he was a good character on house too. He got a recurring role, all that stuff so. But you are right, like those stoner comedies like pineapple express, uh, stoner comedies like pineapple express, uh, grandma's boy, how high dude, where's my car? Um, jay and silent bob, super bad to it. Super troopers, like all these movies like couldn't really come out today and and also they wouldn't necessarily be, they wouldn't even really be funny. I think maybe the ones that have actually I don't know if any of these have held up very well in terms of the content.
Speaker 3:I don't think a lot of them have yeah.
Speaker 2:Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is really racist, but it is a funny racist.
Speaker 3:As an Asian, I'll just say it is a funny racist movie it doesn't punch down because it's not the people that are making the jokes are people of color, so so it's not like.
Speaker 2:Remember the guys that were driving around in the trucks that kept drinking energy drinks, and they were skateboarders and they were like extreme. I'm going to watch Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
Speaker 3:Hold on, I feel like I'm not going to like it as much as I did back when I first came out. I just came out, I just I don't think I'm going to appreciate it now the way I liked it then, which is sad.
Speaker 2:What do you think, Eric? Also, did you see Guantanamo Bay? Or Harold and Kumar Christmas?
Speaker 1:No, I cannot say that I've seen either of those classic gems. I've seen Guantanamo Bay. It's pretty funny. Honestly, I cannot say that I've seen either of those classic gems.
Speaker 2:I've seen Guantanamo Bay. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I've seen Harold and Kumar, I've seen the White Castle one, but it didn't mean that much to me, so this news isn't exciting. I think what this news sparks as far as a conversation for me is not necessarily can this movie work post 2025? Because I don't know that it can. Um, I think I think the comedy it it kind of ties into what I'm actually feeling, which is that like we're just getting to the point where these movies that came out 15 plus years ago, so like when we were in high school, they're coming out with sequels now for that nostalgia bait, so like the comedy. It's not that it couldn't work, but it almost feels forced because they're going for the nostalgia and like I'm like looking, and I don't know if this like just started in the past 10 years, but just looking at the last decade, right, um, they came out with a dumb and dumber two, uh, zoolander two. They had another beverly hills cop movie with eddie murphy come out last year space jam, uh, a few years what's it?
Speaker 2:what's that that's about to come out? Um, the one with leslie nielsen, what's that? Uh, uh, the naked gun rebooting naked gun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well so here's Movies that came out in like the 80s, it seems like, or even early 90s, are getting rebooted. But movies that came out in the 90s slash early 2000s are getting sequels and I don't know when that started that trend. It looks like in the last decade they started to pop up. I feel like Dumb and Dumber started it Maybe.
Speaker 2:Well, dumb and Dumber, what two? Yeah, dumb and Dumber-er. The prequel I don't count as part of it.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're talking about Dumb and Dumber-er.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But that came out pretty quickly.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, so Dumb and Dumber 2, or whatever it was called. That came out way later and I think that might have been the start, they're also rebooting Scary Movie. We talked about that a couple of times ago.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, yeah, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 3:That's really sad. I will say though, if the Harold and Kumar universe is all canonical. I would want this sequel to also have Danny Trejo in it. Because Danny Trejo was it? Because Danny Trejo was in a very uh, harold and Kimura Christmas or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah he's, he plays himself.
Speaker 3:No, he plays the father-in-law to Harold's character. So, yeah, he's Harold's father-in-law, so that would be amazing to have grandpa machete uh in in the in the sequel.
Speaker 2:So I'm fine with that you know me, eric, like I'll definitely see this. Um, you know I'm a sucker for just a movie that hopefully is a fun time. But you know we'll see like a like scary movie. I don't have any. I I don't think that's going to be good at all. I don't think it's. It'll be possible for them not to make it just extremely cringe and extremely corny, especially with today's horror movies. What horror movies are a shoo-in to be mocked in the new scary movie series? Probably all of the Jordan Peele films. What a hereditary. What are those movies now that they're going to try and make fun of?
Speaker 3:Do you think they'll put in the ones that are like funny on purpose?
Speaker 2:like hard eyes and megan yeah, maybe, yeah, so I don't know but yeah, I just don't think like, um, it is a tough ass to like try and reinvent these movies all this time later. But you know, if they got it, obviously it's going to fully depend on writing, so we'll we'll see how that goes. But yeah, new Harold and Kumar on the way, guys. So we'll see and I will definitely be keeping an eye on that. Finally, all right, eric. Well, all right, the two E's you. Finally, alright, eric. Alright the two E's.
Speaker 1:We got the two E's left, so we're gonna go 3, 2, 1.
Speaker 2:Oh, we were P for a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah or E or E. Well, you know what I say, Phil.
Speaker 3:BRD Nope.
Speaker 1:PP, that's my new bathroom saying anyway, moving on, we're going to count down, yep, we're going to say it, yep, and we're going to do it. Yes, let's see who comes next. All right, three, two, one Spin the wheel. Spin that wheel. I couldn't even say it.
Speaker 2:Aaron, aaron wheel, I couldn't even say it. Aaron, aaron. Yeah, all right, my turn, you ready all right, what?
Speaker 3:what do you got here and what did we miss? In june, I bring you two short stories from and the reason I say two is because they're literally two paragraphs each. Uh, from the reputable, incomparable. It's a crime. It's not in the Library of Congress. Coast to Coast. What did you miss? You missed Bigfoot, bigfoot and you missed an alien sighting. So, here we go, ready, make a new wheel. We're gonna find out Pick, put or alien.
Speaker 1:If they're both two paragraphs, do them you got them?
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I got it. Okay. So one takes place in. Let's go to. I was just in California. Let's go back to California. This was from two days ago.
Speaker 3:An odd piece of doorbell camera footage from California shows a strange figure resembling an alien creeping down the driveway of a house. The weird video was reportedly captured earlier this month at a residence in Compton. It was subsequently shared on social media by bewildered homeowner Jessica Ortiz. In the footage featured above, which I will share a screenshot, a diminutive figure that seems to sport a bulbous head, reminiscent of a gray alien, suddenly beside the front porch. It quickly shuffles along the driveway before vanishing from sight Moments later. A curious cacophony of sounds can be heard, presumably caused by the presence of the eerie interloper.
Speaker 3:Okay, this is great journalism, shedding some additional light on the mystifying footage. Ortiz told YouTuber Hidden Underbelly that the sound at the end of the video was that of her back gate. However, motion sensor cameras in the rear of the house did not detect the creepy visitor. Interestingly, ortiz indicated that quote my aunt lives next door and she said at about 12.45 am she heard three loud bangs on the roof of her house and an unsettling scratching sound that caused her to flee the room to her room and pray To that end. The bizarre footage was understandably sparked considerable speculation online, with many viewers positing that the peculiar figure could have been an otherworldly visitor. More skeptical observers, however, argued that the alien may have simply been a person sneaking around Ortiz's home while wearing baggy clothing that concealed their identity. What do you make of the eyebrow raising doorbell footage? And then it tells you to go talk about it on the Coast to Coast Facebook page. But do that at your own risk.
Speaker 2:Is this. It Is this the right video.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2:Alright, Eric, you ready Now. If you look to the right hand side.
Speaker 3:you'll see it, this is a real, uh real signs moment here, folks.
Speaker 2:There, it is there, it is there it is?
Speaker 3:It's the alien from American Dad, it's Roger. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:I wish our friend Ivan was here. He loves Roger. Okay, there it is. You know what my favorite? I'm not the biggest fan of american dad, but my favorite ongoing gag in that show is when they go to do anything like with with a new character and it's always just roger in a costume. It's the best, one of the best, ongoing gags in animation. Um, and that's definitely what it looks like here yeah, so there goes.
Speaker 3:there it goes. Yeah, what do we think? What do we think? Does that pose a threat to?
Speaker 1:us? Are we sure? Earthlings, are we sure that's not like a naked raccoon or something like that? Like, are we sure, a naked raccoon?
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's walking on two legs A naked raccoon that learned to walk Do rac.
Speaker 2:Naked raccoons wear clothes generally around you.
Speaker 3:A naked raccoon learning to walk is more terrifying than an alien.
Speaker 2:I would say that's scarier.
Speaker 1:A naked raccoon that learns to walk. What are the chances?
Speaker 3:A naked raccoon is wild, that's insane.
Speaker 3:Well, speaking of bipedal, I'll just go right into this next one. So this is a Bigfoot photographed in New Hampshire, so I'll just post this in chat for you. In Riverside, so a couple hiking. This is not, this is just a photo, so you don't have to post the video. A couple hiking in New Hampshire snapped a photo of a mysterious creature that some suspect could be a juvenile Sasquatch Little baby boy. Sasquatch little baby boy.
Speaker 3:The interesting picture featured in the video above was reportedly snapped by a witness who encountered the animal as he and his wife were near a stream on Mount Washington's Aminousik Ravine Trail. We thought it was a bear drinking and I took a photograph. He recalled. When it heard us it ran away on two legs. The bipedal nature of the beast understandably startled the pair and prompted them to make their own hasty exit from the scene. Watch out, it could be a naked raccoon. The picture from the couple's brief encounter with the suspected Sasquatch is rather remarkable, as the creature appears to be a small primate reaching down into the stream. That said, the lack of perspective and the almost cinematic nature of the image will undoubtedly leave skeptical viewers wondering if the too-good-to-be-true photo might be a well-crafted hoax.
Speaker 2:Are you sure this is the right link? This is a video.
Speaker 1:No, there's a still image in it. It's a still image in that. Oh, I kept going through it.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I kept going through it and there was another video in it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like an eight-minute long video, so don't worry about that, but the image is there in the thumbnail. There it is. It's a raccoon.
Speaker 1:It's a furry raccoon.
Speaker 2:I'll be honest, it looks, I mean, obviously, bigfoot. We, you know a lot of people do think Bigfoot is some sort of like unidentified primate, because this looks like just a chimpanzee, which gives me, you know what's? The planet of the apes, vibes, and I hate it. So if this is a chimpanzee out in the new hampshire wild, shoot it immediately, please, uh, because we don't need that to happen.
Speaker 3:So this is my worst nightmare yeah, what if it is a chimpanzee?
Speaker 1:that's worse. That might be worse, that might be worse. Listen, I'm just saying I think these are interesting, but this is we're in 2025 right now, wondering if if anything's ai or real, like I think I think. I think I can't even tell what's real or not at this point. Oh, you think that's? You think that's ai? Listen, I don't know. I'm just saying we have the technology where I should be able to finally see it, yeah, and now I can't even tell what's real or not.
Speaker 3:So it's a weird place to be. What I will do for you, Eric, is I will join MUFON and I'll get access to these classified documents.
Speaker 2:And I'll tell you if they're real.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, I'll tell you. Yeah, we'll go to a meeting together, hell yeah. Just like slide Can you guys just show it up to a Mufon meeting, like sup guys, what's going on?
Speaker 2:Wait for a podcast.
Speaker 3:You're here to see the aliens.
Speaker 1:I'd like to meet you at a Actually can we reach out to them?
Speaker 2:Eric, we're going to expand our conventions into the UFO community.
Speaker 1:I don't think so, to meet me in like a random diner in a trench coat and be like. Here's the files.
Speaker 3:And then just show me.
Speaker 1:And then I look at it and I'm like this still looks like a raccoon.
Speaker 3:Aaron, this is just a generative AI picture of a cartoon raccoon wearing a coat.
Speaker 1:Missed a window. Missed a window, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's tough out here, when do you? Land on aliens in Bigfootic, which you're, because you know that I'm the cryptid guy.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's what I was saying. It was like I. I feel like it's 2025, so, like at this point, I feel like we should have captured a pretty clear image at this point, not wondering if it's a raccoon or a chimpanzee, like I, I think.
Speaker 2:Well, ufos slash aliens that.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's been acknowledged, like that exists. Is it a gray bipedal Roger-looking thing? Probably not. We don't know what it really looks like, but all that communication has happened. Bigfoot is a different story. I mean, I personally love Bigfoot, I love the lore and everything, but, like you said, said it's 2025, this motherfucker. I mean, we are still finding like new stuff in the Amazon every week, so it's possible. But I would say, like, in terms of ranking cryptids, bigfoot is higher on the list because it could just be easy for some sort of small community of apes to exist somewhere. I don't know about New Hampshire, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:Or a small community of people that dress up like apes. I mean, look at West Virginia, dude.
Speaker 2:Look at West Virginia, like how many people just live out in the woods or in the Appalachian, appalachian, appalachian, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Three months later, heavy hair growth. It could be anybody.
Speaker 3:Also think about, like, what does Jessica Ortiz have in her driveway that would like entice a gray alien to walk up that driveway? Like, why her? What is she missing?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it really hardly ever is Unlimited like Red Bull or something in her fridge.
Speaker 2:I watch one of my favorite shows that me and Liz watch all the time. It's on HBO. It's called Paranormal Caught on Camera and I always skip the UFO sightings because they're all just lights in the sky. It's all the same video over and over again, but every once in a while there is like an alien sighting or like an alien on the ground, and it's never somebody who's like Harvard law professor sees alien in their front yard and captures video. It's never that person. So you know, we got to figure out why they're targeting certain people. Maybe they know to target like the people that they know no one would ever believe.
Speaker 2:So they're like, oh yeah let's show ourselves to these people, because no one's going to believe them.
Speaker 3:So I did hear, I did hear a thing on another podcast about like speculation as to like why and a lot of it also has to do with location, like um, air pollution, light pollution, things like that and if you're going out in the backwoods in west virginia you're not getting a whole lot of light pollution, which is probably I don't know better for For stars, Whenever I go outside.
Speaker 2:Whenever I go out into the like I'm driving through like the middle of nowhere Florida and I see stars. I'm like what, what is that?
Speaker 3:What? What are those? They're here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or when we went out to California.
Speaker 3:Somebody get Mufon on the phone.
Speaker 2:Yeah he's I phone, yeah he's, I'm gonna call, move on. But all that stuff is fascinating to me. Still, um, shout out, rip to uh the x files and my dark cryptid fantasy. All right, but, eric, uh, we have what. We have some more work to do we do um.
Speaker 1:So you may be wondering why is the wheel back up? Well, we could just let me go with mine, but we can't do that. We have to have one more opportunity to spin that wheel. So yeah, we gotta lock in.
Speaker 3:I'm not missing this up, Alright, three, two one, one Spin Fucking, damn it man.
Speaker 2:Not only did you mess up the cadence, you also said one on your own.
Speaker 1:That's my thing. Yeah, it's literally my whole.
Speaker 3:thing. Eric won, eric, you won.
Speaker 2:We got blue. Eric, you're the winner, did we? Win, that's really the question Did any of us really?
Speaker 1:win. Here is my story that I'm going to cover. So my story is about Will Smith actually, who's been going around and basically doing this whole tour between music and interviews and just basically making everybody forget about the slap heard around the world. And with Will Smith he actually had famously, infamously revealed that he passed on the role for the Matrix. But what some people have learned, including myself, is that he also rejected Christopher Nolan's Inception. He has never said this publicly and this finally came out where he said Chris Nolan brought me Inception. I didn't get it. I never said that out loud.
Speaker 1:Now that I think about it, it's those movies that go into alternate realities. They don't pitch well, but I'm hurt by that one and the Matrix. Apparently, the reports are that the role had initially been offered to Brad Pitt, potentially then Will Smith, before landing on Leonardo DiCaprio. I think that's pretty crazy that Leo is the third wheel there, but I couldn't imagine that movie any other way. I know me and Phil are big fans of that movie and, aaron, whether or not you've seen that, my big question is if you've seen it, what do you think about this? What type of fucking movie would this be with Will Smith in the role and if you haven't seen it, are there any movies out there that you've heard about? Some of these like wish washy castings that you wish came, you know, came true.
Speaker 3:Well, I did see it. I'm pretty sure Inception was the last movie I watched before I went into the military, which I don't know what I have to think about that.
Speaker 2:Your lore is crazy. I forgot about that Will.
Speaker 3:Smith. I forgot about that six years of my life. Me too. Will Smith in Inception does not seem right to me, but then I have to think like, but he was really good in I Am Legend, Like that was a good, serious role for him. I don't think he would have been the right fit for Inception at all. I think the way it was cast with who it was cast with, like Elliot Page, was awesome in it. What's the French woman's name? She's so pretty.
Speaker 2:I love her. She was really good in it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, her name. She's wonderful Marion.
Speaker 2:Coutillard, how do you pronounce her last name? Coutillard?
Speaker 3:Coutillard, how do you pronounce her last name Coutillard Coutillard. This is tough.
Speaker 2:Marion was great yeah.
Speaker 3:Marion was awesome. I just really loved it. I also really loved, in that same vein, leonardo DiCaprio. I forget if Shutter Island came after Inception. Leonardo DiCaprio, I forget if Shutter Island came after Inception, but I would be curious to know if he would have landed that role had he not gotten Inception, because that was a fucking great movie and I think that I think that if it was Will Smith instead, can you imagine like Will Smith and Shutter Island maybe?
Speaker 1:fucking again, also a different movie. Both of those movies came out in 2010. Inception and Shutter Island Interesting.
Speaker 2:So Leo was having a hell of a year that year and then had to wait until the.
Speaker 1:Bear movie to get an Oscar Crazy.
Speaker 2:And don't forget that Will Smith also turned down the Matrix and Django Unchained.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, not very good as far as some of those big like, especially considering he was an independent same and in black. But thank God he did that movie After Earth, that M Night Shyamalan movie, I believe it was.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that was the one with his son, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Such a good movie.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that was the one with his son, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Such a good movie. I think that if he was in Django Unchained, Django Unchained would have been like Wild Wild West.
Speaker 2:Some dancing yeah.
Speaker 3:I think it would have been too. I don't know when I see. I know he's capable like Pursuit of Happiness and stuff. He's capable of having some really good, serious roles. But to me is just, I go to the corniest version I can of these movies. I'm like that's what will smith would bring to the table.
Speaker 2:But I'm sure he would have done fine. That's what he won for, right. He won for king.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the year of the slap, yeah I've uh, oh, did he win for that? Yeah, no because, uh, no. Did he win for emancipation? No, no because no. Did he win for Emancipation? No, that doesn't sound right.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure. No, it was King Richard. It was King Richard King.
Speaker 1:Richard, I think he was promoting it at that time. But yeah, I'm wondering what the rap would have been for Django Unchained, no, it might have been cool.
Speaker 3:It might have been, it just would have been a different kind of goofy, Also Leonardo DiCaprio's in that one too.
Speaker 2:This is a weird coincidence, yeah yeah, have you guys also heard any of his new music? Because it's not good.
Speaker 3:Oh, please, the video of him with the food there and he's talking about chewing. He's taking off more than he can chew and then chewing it. Yeah, that's usually how it works.
Speaker 1:I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2:I'm not talking about the girls' ones, the girls' ones are pretty bad, although I will say this was going around on Twitter. That song it's a tempo issue, because if you adjust the tempo it's actually not bad, but it's so slow paced. I'll send you guys some of them because it's like okay, this would be okay, but the way that it's released now is not good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah. The freestyle video is pretty, it's the lunch break freestyle. It just feels like a midlife.
Speaker 1:Does he bring up the slap in? It, yeah, it feels like a midlife crisis happening before our eyes. He's also cursing now, which I don't ever really care about that. But when your whole brand has been, I don't curse in my raps, and now you're just doing it again. You want us to just forget the slap, forget that. That's your brand. It's just like really weird behavior. But I mean, listen, being married to Jada will do that. Listen, being married to Jada will do that.
Speaker 3:I think that I've noticed a lot of people that are like older Gen X and boomers are starting to have like identity crises where they're starting to realize that they're becoming irrelevant. Like celebrities, especially, they're starting to realize they're becoming irrelevant and the things that they say and like and the things that they once believed in are becoming irrelevant. So they're like grasping at, sort of like trying to remain cool with the kids and it's just, it's like embarrassing dad energy Like yeah, that's a good way to describe it honestly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that actually tracks for Will Smith, specifically, specifically.
Speaker 3:that's exactly what yeah, yeah, like you see, like you know, like brett michaels trying to like make a comeback and axl rose is still performing incoherently, and it's just like, what are you doing? It's okay to retire. Like you can find a new hobby do we have?
Speaker 2:what's the last? I mean, I didn't see king richard, but what in his filmography like, what are those as of like late, are his big hits? You know, like I can't, I'm trying to remember, google it what the last will smith movie like I really enjoyed, was I mean you like, you like there was a performance in bad boys. Did you like his performance in Bad Boys?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Does that not count?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Bad Boys is fine, yeah, bad Boys, I think, is like a phone-it-in role Not that he phoned it in, but he can just do that whenever he needs to.
Speaker 3:See, I'm looking at his filmography. He has really good serious roles, really good serious roles Seven Pounds even I Robot was really good I.
Speaker 2:Am Legend. I like I Robot. I think I Robot is.
Speaker 3:Pursuit of Happiness, emancipation, aladdin.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what it is? Serious roles. He was an executive producer on Cobra Kai. That's so weird. Okay, you know what?
Speaker 2:it is. I didn't notice this.
Speaker 1:So there was like a huge jump, a huge, huge jump in his filmography. I believe from oh no, he had Suicide Squad. I was like that after Earth movie came in 2013.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Suicide Squad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, then he had Suicide Squad Focus. What are we? Some kind of Suicide?
Speaker 2:Squad.
Speaker 1:Bright, which wasn't very great. He did do Aladdin, which again I personally think he saved that movie. I mean, that was 2019.
Speaker 3:Was he in Secret Life of Bees? I don't remember him in that and it says that he was in it.
Speaker 1:That's weird. If you're pulling up IMDb, you might have to just set it to actor though.
Speaker 2:Spies in Disguise that might be why?
Speaker 3:Because he might have been like a producer. Don't bring up Spies in Disguise.
Speaker 1:Late to the Party. Late to the Party.
Speaker 2:Spies in Disguise.
Speaker 1:Bad Boys for Life is 2020.
Speaker 3:Remember Hitch. Hitch is great, I love.
Speaker 2:Hitch.
Speaker 3:I love Hitch. Hitch is so goofy I.
Speaker 2:I feel like he's in his element in Hitch.
Speaker 3:That is one of my favorite Wildcats, hitch 2 needs to happen.
Speaker 2:I thought there was a Hitch 2 with somebody else.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Maybe we don't have to Do we really want to see Kevin James in 2025?.
Speaker 1:I don't think so Respectfully.
Speaker 3:Respectfully. What's he looking like, kevin James? What do you think? Kevin james?
Speaker 1:looks like 15 years or 20 years later oh, he looks fine yeah, he looks like kevin james, just older he looks exactly exactly did I make it sound like he was like some hideous monster?
Speaker 2:now, I didn't mean that, I just meant, you know, we I mean we got enough mall cops that I think I I kind of got tired of seeing kevin james, that's all back in february 2025, there was reported by Yahoo Entertainment that a Hitch 2 was being developed by Will and the original director was not involved and it was going to yeah, but so again, this is another thing after that.
Speaker 1:This is another example of like sequels coming out 15 years later. Like that seems to be the trend Is Disney live actions or live actions of animations, reboots, and now we're going 15 plus years into sequels.
Speaker 3:Also, Kevin James looks like Joe Rogan now. That's definitely unfortunate.
Speaker 1:Maybe he is Joe Rogan.
Speaker 3:It might be. I just sent a picture in the chat about it.
Speaker 1:He did. Kevin James did do that MMA movie. He did.
Speaker 2:He did he's looking like yeah, and also, what would the, what would the the story be?
Speaker 3:for H2?.
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 3:They're kids, his whole thing.
Speaker 2:No, you're just going to add kids. She keeps whole thing. No, you're just going to add kids?
Speaker 1:She keeps saying that, but it's actually accurate.
Speaker 3:It's so accurate, like Freaky Friday that's coming out or just came out. Freaky Friday is another great example.
Speaker 1:That looks fucking awful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did have hopes that Materialists would be kind of like Hitch and it is not.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I heard that wasn't great either. You were really high on that too.
Speaker 2:I was, but Dakota Johnson is terrible. She is maybe the worst of the worst Nepo babies in Hollywood because she is so untalented.
Speaker 3:I don't think she's bad. I think the parts that are written for her are bad. I think that all of the stuff Is there.
Speaker 1:a good Dakota Johnson performance I was going to say I've also seen her in a lot of interviews and she gives off the same energy. I think she's just playing herself. I don't think so.
Speaker 3:I think she's good.
Speaker 2:The only good thing she's done. Her best performance was on the Ellen show. That good the only good thing she's done. Her best performance was on the Ellen show.
Speaker 3:That got rid of Ellen. That was her best performance. No, she did another interview where she cried on command. It was very sweet.
Speaker 2:I cried on command when I left Materialist, so her and I are in this together, yeah.
Speaker 3:I like her, I think she's lovely. I think that all of the shit that she's been in, the parts that are written for her, just suck yeah. Where there's smoke, there's fire. What it might just be her. Oh my god.
Speaker 2:But yeah what was this original story about Will Smith.
Speaker 1:We actually were pretty. We just got to hear from Hitch. Yeah, we were okay. We're still on track.
Speaker 3:She was in Suspiria, by the way. That was a really good. She was great in that you made that up.
Speaker 2:I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3:No, I didn't, it sounds suspicious. It's a movie Came out in 2018. She was good in it. It's a remake with tilda, with tilda swinton, oh, and mia, and mia goth is in it too tilda swinton, the the asian uh character from dr strange.
Speaker 2:Oh no, whoops, but not tilda uh.
Speaker 3:Oh, no, whoops.
Speaker 2:But Not Tilda. Those are our stories for this month. We usually take this time to go over any stories that just missed the cut or any alternate stories that we had. Erin, did you have anything else that you were thinking about presenting, or were those the only two?
Speaker 1:It is okay. If that's all you have. Yeah, if you don't, that's fine, that's totally fine. This is like a bonus, like we're going to throw them out really quick and mention them, so anything you got oh, I had a oh yeah. Okay, toss them out.
Speaker 3:New York City was full of bees last week. Not the bees? Yeah, the bees. There were so many bees that they were creating little tornadoes in the city.
Speaker 2:I did hear about that. That's crazy, yeah, that was one of my stories.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Mine was mostly just fucking goofy shit that you know. I love that.
Speaker 1:Did you see any of the bees? I mean, that story is terrible.
Speaker 3:I didn't. I stayed home because it's too hot. It was 100 degrees, so I didn't go into the office.
Speaker 1:Anybody else want to watch a bee movie right now? We were talking about that the other night.
Speaker 2:Phil movie right now we were talking about that the other night.
Speaker 1:Oh, you mean like this bee is ruining my life. Why is?
Speaker 3:it always on yogurt night. Actually, yes, I do Morty Jerry Seinfeld, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2:He's the only that's. The only character that's sane in that entire movie is Patrick Warburton, and everyone is just shitting on him. It's great. So my only the only other story I was going to go over. Like I said, it was kind of just a comprehensive list of all the games that were talked about or announced for Summer Games Fest. So again, it wasn't really a story per se, but stuff like Resident Evil, um, the new, like the Liza P uh DLC that came out. The new Wu-Tang game looks pretty cool. Um, what else was on here? Ark Raiders looks interesting.
Speaker 2:The Hitman World of Assassination video that showed that there's also going to be. Oh, I'm sorry, that showed that there's also going to be. Oh, I'm sorry, the people that made Hitman are making a 007 game, which I think could be interesting. There supposedly is going to be. What was it here? Where did it go? Oh, have you guys seen that game that was announced called Ill, where it's just like these disgusting creatures and it has like the little baby? Yeah, that game looks gross. Man, I'll definitely watch somebody play it, but like that game looks disgusting.
Speaker 3:I'll play it.
Speaker 2:There you go. Please stream it so we can watch. Okay, yeah, just stuff that was announced at Summer Games Fest that I was going to go over a new Sonic Racing game. What was it? What?
Speaker 3:did you buy on the Steam sale?
Speaker 2:I only bought two games I bought. I bought what's it called Sleeping Dogs and I bought one more, but I don't know what it is. Looking at this, looking at my library, that's probably that's kind of a problem.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like you bought a game. You didn't know what it was. Oh, a game about digging a hole is a dollar off, I gotta get that.
Speaker 2:I already bought it. I bought it like two weeks ago.
Speaker 1:I figure we'll probably end up playing it. Yeah, yeah, now I'm going through my Steam.
Speaker 2:It's single player, it's only one player.
Speaker 3:Oh is it. Take two holes. I told Aaron to get peak, so I'll get peak Also in case your listeners want to know. Borderlands 3 is 95% off.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like $3. I got Borderlands 2 for free a couple weeks ago, so yeah. Yeah, but that was it. Um. There was a jurassic world revolution. 3 obviously was the big one. For me, that was the one I'm most excited for. We got new footage of mafia, the old country, um hell yeah wild gate looks interesting. There is a split gate too. That people weren't very happy about, so that is interesting. Um the resident evil, I think a new what was it called? Silent Hill game was announced as well.
Speaker 3:Mafia the Old Country. Those are people I work with too, and they are super awesome. I can't wait for that game.
Speaker 2:I love the Mafia games. Mafia 3 was a little disappointing, but I still played straight through it within the course of a couple of weeks. But I mean, as far as storytelling goes, the Mafia games are top tier. So yeah, just I just wanted to see if there are any games that stood out for everybody. But that was my only other story, Eric.
Speaker 1:OK, yeah, no, I mean game wise, it's, it's. It's getting pretty crazy as far as announcements going into next year, going into the rest of this year. We've been talking about Game pass being sick as hell. Rematch just came out and we've been having a blast with that. You mentioned peak, which, uh, super fun, can't wait to play that again. Uh, the only thing, gaming wise, I was going to tie into that was that the, the xbox ally handhelds were announced. Uh, they're expected holiday 2025. Yeah, I mean, I like the idea because, like, I've been considering getting a steam deck because, like I play so many games that are perfect for that, like I would love to play slay the spy or apolocho, like on the couch. Honestly, it would be kind of great. So, um, I've been considering it and like, hearing this is pretty cool. Is it tied to silk song? We don't know.
Speaker 1:But, uh, again, we've at least got the footage this year that's what you keep saying, but we at least got some type of footage and they're they're adamant it's coming out this year. So I, uh, I don't know, but, aaron, yeah, any games on the horizon for you or anything you're looking at? Before I go through my, my discord round up here.
Speaker 3:I mean, I've been crushing Palia recently Got into that I've been seeing a lot of streams on that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's nice. It's a really nice low stakes game. It's one of the ones where I'm actually comfortable with not buying anything additional. I'm cool with sticking to the base game. Other than that, peak Schedule 1 is. I fucking love Schedule 1. That game is so fun. I hope it wins at the game awards for best indie. I hope it gets nominated. Um, let's see through my list. I was doing another balder's gate run. That was fun. Drive beyond horizons is also real goofy, uh, guilty of sock is real. Is real.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we considered that one, Phil, we just never got to it.
Speaker 3:It's good. It's a little more structured than the other, like goofy co-op games, but it's still really good.
Speaker 2:Is Drive Beyond Horizons, the one where you have to collect parts for your car. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, I've been seeing it on social media. I was like this looks kind of fun. Yeah, yeah, it's good. I've been seeing it on social media.
Speaker 3:I was like this looks kind of fun. Yeah, it's really good, it's fun to play. I sort of I could like get a couple hours, just throw away a couple hours of my life playing that game happily, and it's fun. It's a little. The physics are a little wonky, which is amazing. There's aliens in it.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, I've seen that pop up on my um algorithm a couple times. I do have sad news to deliver that pool cleaning simulator is not very good. It's very janky and I ultimately decided it was not playable, so sorry to disappoint everybody about the simulator well, now I'm just fucking.
Speaker 3:That's ruined my whole year oh, jurassic World.
Speaker 1:Evolution is three bucks. Yeah, three dollars so whole year. Oh, jurassic World.
Speaker 2:Evolution is three bucks. Yeah, three dollars. So if you haven't played, Jurassic World Evolution 2, which was the Game Room when it Happens episode this month. You can get it for three dollars.
Speaker 1:A 95% discount is crazy to me.
Speaker 2:But you know, what here we? Are Era. Ghost Recon Breakpoint is on sale.
Speaker 1:You keep bringing that up really casually and it's scaring me.
Speaker 3:I'm really into GTFO Also. That's a really fun one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've seen a bit of that. I will try Storage Hunter Simulator soon, so hopefully that will make up for the pool cleaning simulator.
Speaker 3:Have you played Branch Simulator?
Speaker 2:I have. We played it for a little bit. It's just, it's fine, you know, it's good.
Speaker 3:It's good. I kind of lost interest. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think just because like Schedule 1 kind of fulfills that farming aspect of it. I don't really need to play.
Speaker 3:Branch.
Speaker 2:Simulator.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But I really got into TCG Card Stop Simulator early in the year but pretty much all of the Pokemon mods have been shut down so I stopped playing it.
Speaker 3:It was only a matter of time. Have you played Pokemon? Infinite Fusion.
Speaker 2:I don't know what that is. What's that? Oh my god.
Speaker 3:I feel like that would be right up your alley. It's a Pokemon game, but you could fuse your Pokemons together.
Speaker 2:Oh, I have seen people playing this yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I need to. It's really fun to watch people play.
Speaker 2:I need to look into that. So but yeah, eric, I think that's. This cursed Bidoof is crazy. Oh my god, this Bidoof is so swole. Holy sh oh. Oh my god, this Bidoof is so swole. It's a Machamp, but it has Bidoof's head.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know what game we should play Is Date Everything. I saw that Everyone, literally every voice actor you've ever heard of, is in that game.
Speaker 3:It's so crazy, it's so fun, it's really fun.
Speaker 2:I think because Robbie Damon is a producer on it, so that's probably why they're all on there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:It's a really good game.
Speaker 3:I think that's also going to get the get an award there is a incredible. Speaking of Fusion, my favorite Fusion from that game is a Squirrelix and a Trubbish. It's that bad boy right there in chat. You're welcome.
Speaker 2:Let's see here what image are you about to see? What the hell is that? It's a Squirrelix. It's a little turd.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a little cotton candy poop.
Speaker 2:Crazy For those of you, you for the audio only, or here for the YouTube audience. I'll just share this really quick.
Speaker 3:The best one, though, is a Magikarp and a Trubbish. Do you want to guess what it looks like?
Speaker 2:Here is the Bidoof with the Machamp body. That's pretty good.
Speaker 3:This is the Magikarp and the Trubbish is. The Trubbish is in the shape. That's pretty good. The uh, the magic carp in the Trubbish is the Trubbish is in the shape of a paper, of a plastic bag, and the magic carp is swimming in the plastic bag. Yeah, that's so good they have a freaking uh swirl what's it called in the plastic bag too.
Speaker 2:That's so funny that's so good, okay.
Speaker 1:Well, eric, you should probably go to the the roundup before and since we're we're actively using the uh, the riverside chat, I'll actually use that to the benefit, because there's usually so much news that okay, gets hard.
Speaker 2:Okay, I was going to type it out, but you can if you want.
Speaker 1:Oh, either way. Either way, I was just going to post them one by one. The Discord roundup is going to be pop culture stories that have come through Discord, through our pop culture news channel, and here are some of the highlights from this past month that we didn't get into. On this episode uh, blumhouse, blumhouse, blumhouse, blumhouse is acquiring the rights to Saw from Twisted Pictures. So if you're into the Saw franchise, a little bit of news there. Jon Bernthal is joining Tom Holland in Spider-Man Brand New Day, per the Hollywood Reporter. Uh, are we gonna see Daredevil there? It feels likely. So super exciting news. Sad news Ultraman Rising. We love that movie.
Speaker 1:On Netflix it is not getting a sequel. The reasons are unknown and I am heartbroken. But for those of you guys that are enjoying the casting news for Street Fighter, there's announcements from Roman Reigns to Jason Momoa. A lot of big names and also interesting names. 50 Cent, andrew Schultz, I think, got announced today. It's like a weird like smorgasbord of a cast. Johnny Knoxville is going to be the host of the Fear Factor reboot on Fox. Uh, I believe this is not the first time they rebooted this, if I recall correctly. I think this will be interesting to see what happens. The Spider-Man original trilogy is going to be returning to theaters. Uh, they're going to be doing a run end of September of this year and an encore at the start of October of this year and an encore at the start of October. Lilo and Stitch 2 is getting a live action, and a sequel.
Speaker 1:And, yeah, you already know how we feel about Lilo and Stitch, the Disney live actions. We're not heading in the right direction any longer. And finally, today, news about Matt Reeves sharing a photo of a script for the Batman Part 2. How much proof is this really? I don't think this movie exists, in the way that Silksong doesn't exist. So those are all my stories, phil. I'll throw it to you first, if you just want to go down the line with quick thoughts, and then, aaron, you can chime in to any of these stories that interest you at all. So, phil, run them down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a Blumhouse acquiring Saw, that's cool. I'm not going to. I don't watch Saw movies but I think that's a good thing for the series. Jon Bernthal in Spider-Man makes a whole lot of sense. Like you said, daredevil will be there. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the Defenders in just all of them. Ultraman Rising that was news that we actually missed from a few months back. It's a bummer that it's not getting a sequel. We'll see what happens there. The Street Fighter cast is interesting. That's probably a movie I will most likely skip, but yeah, some big names attached to it.
Speaker 3:Not a movie, it's a video game.
Speaker 2:What no? They're making a Street Fighter movie. Oh shit, okay, I thought what no it's no.
Speaker 3:No, they're making a street fighter movie. Oh shit, okay, I thought they were.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dumbass uh, johnny knoxville hosting fear factor makes a lot of sense. I can't imagine what they're gonna have people do. Uh, the spider-man trilogy returning to theaters. Definitely want to see one and two. Well, you know what I'll see? I want to see emo Spider-Man dance down the street.
Speaker 3:You want to see the dance on Spider-Man.
Speaker 2:Lilo and Stitch. Live action sequel. Great job everybody. We're in hell. Eric, you were part of that, so good job. I got a kid.
Speaker 1:I don't know what to say. That's Fear Factor, episode one.
Speaker 3:They're going to make us watch it, just watching Lilo and Stitch 2.
Speaker 2:And then the Batman part two. Even James Gunn is like it's coming, it's never going to happen.
Speaker 3:It's going to take time.
Speaker 2:Sure, sure man. Robert Pattinson is doing a million things. He's a huge star, so he needs to keep adding new accents and voices to his repertoire. So he's done Batman. He doesn't need to go back to Batman so we'll see what happens, but, aaron, did you have anything to add for any of these? You can pick and choose if you'd like.
Speaker 3:I mean just that live action Lilo and Stitch. I think we're kind of lost in Disney live actions. We've lost our way, so I don't know what else. We can't scare Gen Alpha anymore, so Fear Factor is not going to do it. What are they going to do? You have to.
Speaker 1:I don't even. I can't even think of something. Put your phone down for 10 minutes.
Speaker 3:That sounds like a boomer thing to say Eric, I'm not going to lie, I'm sorry, go outside and touch grass. Back in my day we had a Nokia. What?
Speaker 2:was your phone. We're looking up our old phones before you join K10 Royale.
Speaker 3:Listen, I'm just going to be honest with you.
Speaker 1:The phone with the slide-out keyboard is still top-notch. I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 2:I think it's a great design. I'm kind of sad we went away from the actual keyboard. I don't know if people feel the same way, but I like the physical keyboard.
Speaker 1:Nothing beats the click clacking of the keyboard. It's the best, it's absolutely the best. But yeah, lilo and Stitch was probably just like the most disheartening news because you know they obviously went the other direction after Snow White and then immediately is like oh no, these people make money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, these are good again.
Speaker 3:Pretty tough, do you guys remember?
Speaker 2:ringback tones.
Speaker 3:Oh my god, I just tried to explain ringback tones to my kid. That was a thing. Yeah, I had a few of those Please enjoy this ringback tone while your party is reached.
Speaker 2:Soldier boy video.
Speaker 3:Amazing.
Speaker 2:But any of those other ones? You want to chime in on Erin, or are we good?
Speaker 3:I'm good Cool.
Speaker 2:Well, there you go, guys. So for the podcast audio audience only. This is typically where we suggest that you switch over to the YouTube page, because there is a visual element to the game that we're playing. So, Erin, if you're not familiar with Kahoot, I'll go over it with you here in just a moment. You just need your phones. Here is the pin.
Speaker 3:I'm there.
Speaker 2:All right, do you want to be the little kitty cat with hearts, or are you going to change it?
Speaker 3:B-R-B-P-P. I love that.
Speaker 1:B-R-B-P-P. Yeah, I had to use the threes because Kahoot didn't like it.
Speaker 3:I'm going to do the wolf because I'm in the alpha.
Speaker 2:Makes sense.
Speaker 3:It gives makes sense here, gives off beta energy with that binky. Yeah, little baby binky, I don't know yet you look like the Teletubbies baby oh yeah, there we go the sun thank you, thanks for appreciating that.
Speaker 2:You're welcome. Alright, so once again, for the audio only audience, you can, of course, stick around, but it is recommended to head on over to YouTube so you can see the questions. I'm still going to read them out. It's not like I'll be like here's the next question and it's going to be silent for 30 seconds. I will read them out and describe it for you. But yeah, Eric, are you ready to defend your crown? You only have to beat one person this month. How are you feeling?
Speaker 1:Feeling good, got my person, my son baby.
Speaker 2:You want to tell people your name, my.
Speaker 1:BRBPP, brbpp.
Speaker 2:You know, you need to change your Twitch stuff now to be right back to BRBPP. That's adorable.
Speaker 2:Oh fuck yeah, don't tempt me. Aaron, have you ever done Kahoot? Nope, ok, so it's basically. It's basically just trivia. There's a couple of different questions you'll see in here. One of them is just a simple multiple choice. One of them you will type in your answer on your phone. One of them is true or false. There is one that Eric Eric's favorite is the slider where you will slide your phone to a certain number on your phone. You'll see it when it'll make sense.
Speaker 2:Spoiler alert when you see it, and then there's a pin it or something where you will place a pin on a photo of what you think. The answer is it's very, very simple. So you'll see it. There's only 10 questions, since there's two of you. Why are you both? The sun with the pinky God, and also for the questions? You'll just need to look at the screen, but you'll answer on your phone, okay, other than that, everybody ready to go?
Speaker 3:Spin that wheel.
Speaker 2:No, no wheel here, sorry, alright, the first question. This is a kahoot, of course, presented by the wait for a podcast. What did I miss? June 2025. First question as always, is a multiple choice it still says loading for me, uh-oh oh, now it says ready.
Speaker 3:Question one which of?
Speaker 2:these games was not a platinum seller on steam in 2024? Which of these games was not a platinum seller on Steam in 2024? Which of these games was not a platinum seller on Steam in 2024? Call of Duty, black Ops 6, fc Okay, everybody answered FC 25, warhammer and Black Myth. Wukong, you both got it wrong. It was FC 25, which is FIFA.
Speaker 1:We're not even real gamers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I figured FIFA would throw people off because people love the FIFA.
Speaker 3:I thought that was like the right one, or I thought that did 1-1.
Speaker 2:It was a gold seller, but not platinum. Alright, let's go to the scoreboard 0-0. Yes, yes, let's see how this goes. Next question is type the answer. The islands in the Jurassic Park universe are also referred to as the blank deaths. I'll give you guys a hint. It's a number. I gave you a map as well to give you a hint.
Speaker 1:I hope someone how did neither one of you get? Was that not Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on? Was that not six islands?
Speaker 2:Hold on One, two, three, four, five.
Speaker 1:Six oh, this is the whole, yeah, yeah, yeah. One, two, three, four, five oh, this is the whole. Yeah, yeah, yeah, one two, three, four, five.
Speaker 2:This is yeah, yes, I'm going to get this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was confusing, I'm going to win, yeah. It didn't feel right either, which was why I was like that was a pretty on-the-nose hint.
Speaker 2:All right, zero, zero.
Speaker 1:This is the worst. This might be the lowest scoring.
Speaker 2:There's only eight questions left too, so this might be one of the lowest. All right Puzzle. Put these in order. Place these WWE superstars in order of the most to least amount of world title reigns. Give me most options are most to least rock Randy Orton edge and the undertaker.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:So who has the most?
Speaker 3:Don't wait, don't say that loud. And who has the least? Actually, no, I can meet myself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you guys got some time here. These numbers kind of surprised me. Oh, you both got it wrong. Yeah, I took a risk on the Rock and Taker I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the both got it wrong. Yeah, I took a risk on the Rock and Taker I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Undertaker has the least amount on this list, with only seven, which was shocking. Of course, randy Orton at the top Edge, the Rock, and then the Undertaker, I think the Rock is nine, edge is around 12 and then Randy Orton, of course, is at 14.
Speaker 3:Tied with Triple.
Speaker 2:H.
Speaker 1:Oh, good for him, All right let's go to the scoreboard.
Speaker 3:We're doing great. Zero to zero. It's zero, zero.
Speaker 2:It's anybody's game at this point it is still very close All tied up. Going into the fourth question, let's see Slider, eric's favorite. God damn it, man. How many playable characters are currently available in Marvel Rivals?
Speaker 1:Oh my god, I haven't played this fucking game.
Speaker 2:Somewhere between 35 and 50. You will get points for being close as well. How many characters can you currently play, as in Marvel Rivals? I don't fucking know. Alright, alright, damn. The answer is 39. Who put 38? Me, you'll get points for that. There you go.
Speaker 1:I'll take the petty points, spin that wheel.
Speaker 2:Get some points for that. Alright, eric, on the board with 154. Landslide, all right. Next question, I think, is oh, pin the answer, eric. Which one of these Fast and the. Furious characters is named Elena. Who the fuck is, Elena no no, which one of these Fast and the Furious characters is named Elena Did?
Speaker 3:I get it, did I get it, did I get it.
Speaker 2:No, oh, somebody got it right. Who did?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was me. Damn it, man. That's Eric's favorite recurring question. I get it wrong every time. The last time I got it right, but that was pure luck.
Speaker 2:One of these months I will bring back Jeopardy and there will be just a Fast and the Furious category. I hope you're prepared.
Speaker 1:I will exit, I will leave, I love that Scoreboard.
Speaker 2:Aaron is on the board Takes the lead Damn.
Speaker 3:How's that crown feel?
Speaker 2:All right Halfway through. How's that crown feel Alright Halfway through, that's?
Speaker 1:a lot of points.
Speaker 2:This should be a quiz. Okay, we have a quiz. What's the name of the corporation in Borderlands that is responsible for manufacturing Claptrap? Is it the Jacobs, Malawan, Iridion or Hyperion who manufactured Claptrap in the Borderlands franchise? All right, One person got it right.
Speaker 1:I hope it was who do you think it wasn't me Wasn't?
Speaker 2:me, the correct answer is Hyperion. Shout out to our boy Claptrap Aaron, taking a commanding lead, hell yeah. All right question seven I think okay, true or false, in hey Arnold. Arnold's iconic bedroom is located in the basement of his grandparents' boarding house, True or false? Where is Okay? Well, one of you got that wrong somehow, Eric there's a skylight.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's in the attic. Huh, there's a skylight. Oh, it's in the attic. Huh, there's a skylight in the apartment. I'm not having a good time.
Speaker 2:You know, I did think this was an easy one. He looks through the clouds, he climbs into the roof from his room. Okay, I'm sorry this one might have gotten away from you, eric.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm having a hard time uh score update.
Speaker 2:For the audio only audience, it is 2638 to 154 my one answer getting really established in the slider is crazy because you took, because it took a while. I hate you All. Right. Next question Type the answer. What is the first name of this person? An image will slowly reveal itself.
Speaker 3:First name. That's not correct. Oh oh, that's a crazy poll, that's a crazy pull, that's a crazy pull.
Speaker 2:I was like I thought about asking for the full name. I was like no, guerrero could be a little difficult to spell. I'll just ask for the first name so for those of you that are just listening, that was Chavo Guerrero that showed up on our screen. There is also a WaitForward podcast lore for Chavo Guerrero. Should we explain that now or after? Kahoot? Do it right now, dude. You might as well just do it now. So back in what was it 2005? 7.
Speaker 3:One Night Stand.
Speaker 2:Oh 7? Oh yeah, 2007. Wwe One Night Stand. Oh seven, oh yeah, 2007,. Wwe One Night Stand came to Jacksonville and the three of us went. It was a blast Core memory, lots of fun.
Speaker 2:And afterwards we went to Steak and Shake, over by the Avenues Mall, for those of you that are in Jacksonville. And as we walk in, a man walks up and grabs himself a menu and I just at him and I turn around to these two and I go guys, that's chavo guerrero, chavo guerrero, wrestler, of course, of the guerrero family. And then we get seated and they are you know how for those of you that have been to steak and shake, it has like the windows so that the booths are like right next to each other and we get set sat right next to him. Um, didn't didn't build up the courage to say hello or ask for an autograph or a picture or anything like that, but we did steal his fork that he used to eat his meal. Hold on, hold on. Okay, I did not. You did not build up the courage. Not necessarily a we.
Speaker 3:You did not build up the courage. You held up the autograph book, that's true to the people across from us and said is that him? And they said yeah, and then you said you got too scared so I went up I did so sweet and I asked for an autograph and then you guys came, he autographed your book. Oh, he did, he did. Yeah, I do have the autograph.
Speaker 2:That's right, I do have the autograph. And he was so nice. And then you guys came up and you were like I love you so much. Man, he autographed your book. Oh, he did. He did, yeah, I do have the autograph. That's right, I do have the autograph. I forgot about that. I don't have that book anymore. And then you guys came up and you were like I love you so much, man, you're the best and then we stole his fork.
Speaker 1:Well, you did, or Eric? Yes, one of you two did, yeah, which what we did with that?
Speaker 3:fork. We had it for a few weeks. We ate lava cake with it.
Speaker 2:But we cleaned it right? No, we cleaned it, we did wash it. No, we didn't.
Speaker 1:No, we didn't there's no way I ate off that fork and it was not clean.
Speaker 3:There's no way. No, because your dad Phil put it in the washing dishwasher because we couldn't figure out which fork it was.
Speaker 2:And then it just got mixed into all the others.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Then we just used a regular fork.
Speaker 2:But we ate lava cake with it. Yeah, shout out to Chili's. All right, all right. Next question let's see if Eric can mount a comeback here. Let's go to the scoreboard. All right, not looking good. Eric is leading 3,329 to 945. Can Eric get into the thousands range? With these last two questions, I'm sure it's going to go fine. Puzzle Place these 2024 films in order of highest to lowest worldwide gross.
Speaker 3:I don't think I'm going to get this.
Speaker 2:So which of these films made the most money? The options are Mufasa, the Lion King Story I missed a word there Godzilla X-Kong, the New Empire, despicable Me 4, and Kung Fu Panda 4. Got a couple of 4s came out.
Speaker 3:I'm going to do this. I don't know if this is right. Who made the?
Speaker 2:most money. Who made the least money? No, made the least money. No, alright, no one got that right. It was Despicable Me 4, which was very surprising, mufasa, godzilla, x-con and.
Speaker 3:I flipped the first two. I should have put Despicable Me 4 at number one.
Speaker 2:Yes, despicable Me still makes crazy money, man, it is a People.
Speaker 3:Love those minions, dude, as you can see on Facebook Like the Tweety Bird of our generation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, alright, no points there. Eric, I don't know what the math is, but I think you need about 2200 points here.
Speaker 1:And you need Aaron to get it wrong. We can make that happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the last question, pin your answer which one of these 10? Characters is named sassy there's no way. There's no way, there's a whole new one all right, somebody got it right, it wasn't me.
Speaker 1:She looks sassy.
Speaker 2:This one's sassy right here. That's May that you selected, eric, so maybe you want to put that away?
Speaker 1:May is sassy. That was the other seven eighths of Ted Lasso. I hadn't seen on TikTok yet. Yeah, you just missed that one.
Speaker 2:All right, let's check the scoreboard. No one was in third place. Second place, ericbrbpp, and in first place with 4,246 points is Aaron. Wait, did you change? Did you? Did you change out of the pacifier? Can you change?
Speaker 1:at any point no, no, it changed. Right before we started I had the pacifier oh no, I did too at one point.
Speaker 2:We did we did.
Speaker 1:I changed it right before we started yeah, I'm just a child, so this wasn't really fair. I'm just a little baby, I'm just a.
Speaker 2:I'm just a little baby, I'm just a baby, I'm just a little baby. Well, there we have it, folks, kahoot, eric, rough time, rough time there.
Speaker 3:I'll send you my address so you can send me the crown, yeah.
Speaker 2:I got you. I got you the title belt. Actually, Eric, do you have it near you? Show Aaron the yeah a belt. Hold on, you're gonna.
Speaker 3:Give him a moment to weep.
Speaker 2:I should get some sleep. Oh shit, you have to send that to Aaron. Oh, he doesn't have his headphones on.
Speaker 1:You gotta send that to Aaron. We're on it. We're on it.
Speaker 3:Oh my God yeah, really cool. Shout out to Stefan. I're on it, we're on it. Oh my god yeah.
Speaker 2:Really cool. Shout out to Stefan.
Speaker 3:I'll wear it to the office.
Speaker 2:There you go. There you go. Well, Aaron, thank you so much for joining us and partaking in the madness. That is what Did I Miss. We hope you'll come back if you had a good time, Like we said we want to. When there's more people, it adds to the chaos of the episode and Kahoot as well. Is there anything you want to plug, like anything you're working on or just anything else you want to let people know? And if you want to share again your socials, go for it before we wrap up.
Speaker 3:I mean play Borderlands 4, everybody Pre-order it, play it. Borderlands 4, everybody Pre-order it, play it. Give it a good review.
Speaker 2:My job's on the line, please, please.
Speaker 3:Please play the game.
Speaker 2:Please play the game. Yeah, and we'll make sure that all your social links, as far as Twitch and stuff like that, are in the show notes of the episode and, yeah, we're excited to see the game Again. Aestheticallyically looks great. The gameplay, from everything I've seen from the previews, looks like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:So is that why you counterpicked it in our league?
Speaker 2:Phil, yeah, I well you know I also counterpicked what's it called Death Stranding 2, and now my season's over, so I'm not even sure probably so yeah, but for those of you that are still here, if you want to keep up with the way for a podcast, just click the link tree link in the show notes of this and every single episode. You'll find all the episodes for the month of june. July is going to be packed. We are also officially for those of you that listen to this episode before it happens are going to be at infinity con in tallahassee, florida, june 12th and the 13th. So come down or come over or whichever direction you need to go, and hang out with us at Infinity Con. Shout out to them for having us.
Speaker 2:Make sure to keep up with us on social media Instagram, tiktok, our thriving Discord channel, which has been a whole lot of fun interacting with everybody. We are on Twitch quite a bit, having a whole lot of fun over there and, of course, follow Eric and I's personal pages to help us grow as I navigate voice acting and voiceover. And then Eric continues to put out content each and every single day, working very, very hard. So we appreciate all of the support. Head on over to Apple Podcasts, spotify, youtube, like, share, subscribe, thumbs up. All that stuff is very beneficial. We thank you so much, but if you find yourself wanting to join the Weight Watchers, get these episodes early and also get some additional perks. Eric will let you know about that before wrapping us up for the evening.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, of course, all the free stuff is much appreciated, but if you want to go the extra mile and go beyond, you can go to Patreon, where patrons of the show Briar T3, Kato, Vintage, Macaroni, Corey from the World is my Burrito and Nick Casparo, the author of the Vidularium series, are supporting us monthly on that platform in exchange for behind-the-scenes access and early access to episodes like this one. So make sure to support us there. That's the main way you can definitely do that, Above all the free stuff that Phil mentioned. Joining our Discord, being a part of the community, engaging with our content and our episodes all of that stuff goes a long way as well, and we appreciate you for giving this episode a listen.
Speaker 1:With all that being said, my name is Mr Eric Almighty. That is my co-host. Phil the Filipino and Erin, aka Erin my Laundry. Make host Phil the Filipino and Erin, aka Erin my Laundry. Make sure to support her. Check her out. Check out more episodes of the podcast. We release new episodes every Wednesday and all you gotta do is wait for it damn it this is the wait for it podcast.
